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Re: Installing binaries with package.el
From: |
Achim Gratz |
Subject: |
Re: Installing binaries with package.el |
Date: |
Thu, 09 Feb 2017 20:47:04 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.91 (gnu/linux) |
Clément Pit-Claudel writes:
> Sorry, maybe my original question wasn't clear. The question was: I
> wrote a command line utility in ELisp (it doesn't provide interactive
> commands; just a command line interface). What's the preferred way
> for users to install it?
I understood that to be the case, but it's a very surprising use of
package.el and ELisp. As I said I don't really have a suggestion at the
moment, but this particular use case should not be handled as an "Emacs
package". You use Emacs as a VM for some scripting here.
>> I simply don't think that wrapper scripts and/or compiling binaries
>> is appropriate for ELPA packages, it just opens one big can of worms
>> that I don't really want to deal with in any way.
>
> I don't understand this part too well. Are you saying that ELPA isn't
> the right place to distribute a command line application written
> entirely in ELisp? (Note that the task that I'm describing has
> nothing to do with compiling binaries — sorry if that wasn't clear).
Well, I would want to distinguish between Emacs packages proper and
Emacs as a scripting VM. The more I think about it, package.el should
guarantee that it doesn't write outside the package directory unless it
has explicit user consent.
Regards,
Achim.
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- Re: Installing binaries with package.el, (continued)
Re: Installing binaries with package.el, Achim Gratz, 2017/02/07
Re: Installing binaries with package.el, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2017/02/08
Re: Installing binaries with package.el,
Achim Gratz <=
Re: Installing binaries with package.el, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2017/02/09
Re: Installing binaries with package.el, Stephen Leake, 2017/02/09